Posted on 10/28/2007 2:04:36 PM PDT by yorkie
An eastern Kentucky school district with one confirmed case of antibiotic-resistant staph infection plans to shut down all 23 of its schools Monday, affecting about 10,300 students, to disinfect the facilities.
The project will involve disinfecting classrooms, restrooms, cafeterias, hallways, locker rooms, buses and even external areas such as playgrounds and sports fields, said Roger Wagner, superintendent of Pike County schools.
"We're not closing schools because there's been a large number of breakouts, but as a preventive measure," Wagner said.
One Pike County student was diagnosed with in September with MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The bacterial strain can be treated with other antibiotics, but without treatment it can be deadly.
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I’m not sure what good it does to shut down schools and “disinfect” them.
Once the doors are re-opened and all the people return to the building, by the end of the 1st day all the regular germs, viruses and bacteria are back again.
Yeah....it’s ON THE PEOPLE, isn’t it?
It is carried in their noses. They are wasting time and money. Over reaction. This has been going on for years. I saw 2 cases last week. It is getting very common and is everywhere.
Exactly, it is a media created frenzy....
Parents in our area were hysterical because the media reported on one case of viral meningitis and that child had recovered and was back in school by the time they got a hold of the story....
Thanks, blam. Sometimes the titles are so different, that they don’t match up on ‘search’.
And, Kimmers, I don’t believe it is a ‘media-created frenzy’. When I was diagnosed, the doc told me it is reaching epidemic proportions, and can be found (and picked up) everywhere.
Therut, yes, you are right. It is carried in the nose. It can also be contacted by skin to skin or skin to surface.
Must be related to last week’s Virginia shut down - 21 schools.
Had a paper cut that caused my index finger to swell, surface was very warm within three days. Went to doctor, and he gave me a tetnus booster shot and anti biotic for MRSA. I did not get my anti biotics till three hours later, by then the swelling on my finger started to ebb (I could start bending it to a 45 degree angle). Still took my anti biotics, but the more I thought about it, probably was tetnus. Lesson, if you are in your late 40’s have the doctor check your med records for when you had your last shot or booster for tetnus. For me it was over 20 years ago when I got a booster while I was in the Army. Those boosters do wear out within 20 plus years.
Good to hear it worked out...whether you had MRSA and/or tetanus.
Having had a bad enough case of cellulitis that when I got up out of
bed, it felt like a million little needles penetrating my leg...
AND
Having read about the long, lingering death of David Thoreau’s brother
by tetanus....
Neither one is a preferred “way to go”!
MRSA is a problem we have been dealing with in my area for the last 5 years. The only thing that has changed is that it is the “shark bite” story of 2007.
You are much more likely to die driving your car than from MRSA. In fact if you are not already critically ill from another disease, you are probably more likely to die from a lightening strike or slipping in your tub.
“Yeah....it’s ON THE PEOPLE, isn’t it?”
I’ve been watching doctors state on our local news the past few days that this is “skin-to-skin”
The schools, however, are being advised to keep surfaces clean.
Somebody somewhere is giving out wrong info,
Well WebMD says skin to skin contact.....here’s some interesting info....
That quote is from the WebMD link.
I don't think disinfecting the schools is doing any good at all. Perhaps, they are thinking they have to be seen doing something.
Kids are dumb and fearless. They'll come up with things that we can't even imagine, let alone prevent.
Sure doesn't hurt anything!
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